Ondrej Styler In NCAA Singles Final
Just thought I would update that Styler just won the first set 7-6 (7-2). If he can manage to win another set, he will be the first NCAA men's tennis champion since Michael Leach in 1982. He already is the third Wolverine to make the finals!
Good Luck and get a huge win over a #1 ranked Georgia Bulldog. That has a great vibe as maybe we can do it next January!!!
How does one watch this? MGoBlue seems to be leading me to the semifinals.
I don't have video, but here is the point-by-point link
I found video on this NCAA link
PS: 3-3 in the second set.
Johnny Mac at his finest!
Here we go... Styler up 5-4 and serving for the title!!!!
This...THIS is the post that put the jinx on it.
Quadruple championship point (a thing I didn’t even know was possible but collegiate tennis apparently doesn’t have deuce at 40-40, it’s just next point wins) and he lost the next four.
That feels ominous.
Yep and ouch! Especially when I thought he had an ace for the win.
Could have been his Jana Novatna moment - going into a third set
Why don't they have deuce at 40-40? That's weird.
From what I’ve read in an explanation of how team tennis works, it seems like everything about college tennis is about ending the match(es) as quickly as possible.
I swear there is a curse over the entire athletic department as far as winning national titles.
Women’s gymnastics won the national championship in 2021 but I get what you’re saying
Mason Parris won a national championship in wrestling this year and Fred Richard won a national championship in men’s gymnastics.
I believe wrestling had another national champion last year as well.
Welp, Styler just lost the second set in a TB. On to the 3rd set we go.
Doesn't seem like a championship match....maybe 100 people watching?
I'm here! Majority Georgia fans here, but definitely a fairly quaint atmosphere
Styler gets broken to start the 3rd. Missing a lot of his first serves and making errors.
Styler tweaked his knee and now Quinn is serving for the win
GSM for Quinn. It looked like Styler maybe ran out of gas late in the 2nd and 3rd sets. Too bad.
Still a great achievement for the young man, #2 in the country. He had 4 championship points too. I've played a few tournaments and the yips are real. Just got to keep playing high-stakes matches and power through.
A great outcome for the tennis program which has been ascending for years.
Go blue!
Those yips can also manifest themselves in a 3 ft. putt!
On another board several fans are hammering Syler. Really, pretty nasty.
Glad to see none of that here.
Styler had an incredible run and was one point (one bad call?) away from a NC.
Combined, Men's and Women's tennis had their best year ever. Next year the women should be stronger. The men will decline, losing Styler, Fenty and Maloney. They still have several very good players, but the depth won't approach this year, absent some pretty remarkable infusion of talent.
Perspective..... some people really need it!
I’m sure all those keyboard warriors would have won the national title in singles tennis. That’s not hard to do or anything.